Of Puppies and Love - Chapter 2
Title: Of Puppies and Love
Pairings: Akame, Ryopi, smidge of Kamepi
Rating: PG
Summary: Akanishi Jin and Kamenashi Kazuya were average students with average lives until they meet each other. The results? An eccentric school year.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2:
After they (Kame) cleaned the tea up, Jin looked over incredulously, “What do you mean get you a date with Pi!?”
The other boy raised a brow calmly, “What? It’s not like I’m asking for a miracle from you, just get me one by the end of summer vacation, and one’s all I’m asking for, whether it works out or not.”
“But…”
“Come on, it can’t be that hard.”
“I don’t know…”
“He’s your best friend, isn’t he?”
“Yea, but still…”
“You’re Akanishi Jin, aren’t you?”
“Flattery isn’t going to work for this. Nothing you say can make me-”
The younger boy crossed his arms, “Puppy.”
He threw his hands up in defeat, “Fine! I’ll get you a date! Only one though!”
Kame grinned, “Sounds good to me.”
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The next day, it was the weekend, and his uniform still hadn’t dried completely. But luckily, he didn’t need it, so he put on a pair of worn out jeans, a t-shirt, and a jacket, and took the pup and his other two dogs out for a walk with Ryo’s umbrella.
The four of them went to the school courtyard where yelling could be heard. Blinking, Jin made his way to where the voices were coming from.
It was the baseball team.
They were practicing in the rain. He walked over and squatted on a bench with the dogs in his arms while he balanced the umbrella between his shoulder and cheek. The team didn’t take any notice of him until about an hour later, when they began putting away their equipment. Someone began pointing at him, causing Kame to look at them and blink, “Akanishi-senpai?”
Jin waved the best he could.
He felt stupid afterwards.
The younger boy packed up and headed over in his wet uniform, he reached out to pet the wet dogs which became quite hyper and struggled to get out of his hold. “Whoa!” He set them down to avoid falling over and glared at them as they surrounded the other.
Kame laughed and continued ruffling the dogs’ fur, “So what are you doing here?”
Jin shrugged, “I was taking these guys out for a walk.”
“I didn’t think you’d have two other dogs.”
He smiled and looked at the three rather proudly, “well I do, this is Maru, Pin and now I have this little guy.”
The other blinked, “You didn’t name him yet?”
This caused him to raise a brow, “I thought you wanted to take part in naming him.”
“I do.”
He rolled his eyes and gave a mock-sigh, “Then hurry up and get changed so we can head back to my place and name him, I’m tired of calling him ‘pup’.”
“Fine,” Kame snorted but didn’t retort wittily, instead, he grabbed his bag and headed for the change room.
When the younger boy disappeared, he looked down at his dogs, “See him? That’s the kid that’s making me get him a date with Pi just so I can keep you, pup. See how much crap I’m doing just to keep you? You better be grateful.”
The pup looked up at him and wagged its tail.
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Ryo looked over from his bowl of food and blinked, “Hey, isn’t that Jin?”
“Hm?” Pi followed the other’s gaze, “yea it is, and he’s with Kamenashi…I guess that’s why he didn’t pick up his phone earlier. They look like they’re getting along pretty well…”
The shorter boy missed the implications behind the statement and nodded, “Yea…hey!” He glared at the other as another slice of meat was stolen from his bowl, “stop stealing my food!”
“But you’re eating really slowly! I’m just helping you out! It’s not like you can eat that much anyways!”
“I can so! The only reason I never eat that much is because you end up eating half of my dish!”
“Because you can’t finish it!”
Ryo frowned, “I bet I can! I’m going to order another one just to prove you wrong!”
Yamapi raised a brow, “fine, go ahead and try, I bet you won’t be able to finish it.”
“I will…” he opened his wallet, “the second I get the money to order it…Pi?”
“What?” The younger boy laughed, “You don’t have enough money? You sure came prepared.”
He huffed, “that’s just because you keep dragging me out for meals.”
“Because I like spending time with Ryo-chan!”
“Uh huh…so are you going to pay for my meal or what?”
Pi sighed and fished out his wallet, “fine…just because I like you that much. You’re treating me back next time though.”
Ryo shrugged, “sounds like a plan.”
“You’re coming over after this right?” He asked while he asked for the check.
“Huh? But I have homework.”
The other nodded, “right, so you’re coming over.”
“But-”
“No buts!”
“Bu-”
“Are you picking homework over me!?” His brows furled, “Ryo-chan, since when did you start caring about homework anyways?”
He blinked and thought for a moment, “that’s a good question actually…I don’t know…I don’t really care about it actually…hey, what do you know? You’re right…for once. I think I’m going through a phase…”
The younger boy snorted, “A really stupid phase.”
Without thinking, he replied, “You’re a stupid phase!”
“…what?”
“I don’t know, that was like a natural reaction or something. Oh my god, I’m turning into Jin!”
Yamapi sighed and looked over to where his other best friend was a few minutes ago, “Speaking of Jin…why can’t we just get along like Jin and Kamenashi?”
Again, missing the implications, Ryo replied with a shrug.
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“You’re stupid!”
“No! You’re stupid!”
“No, you’re stupider!”
“Well you’re the stupidest!”
“At least I’m not filled head to toe with stupid-osity!”
“That’s not a word!”
“It is now!”
“You can’t just make up words in the middle of an argument!”
“Yes you can! How else do you think they came up with Jell-O!?”
He left Kame speechless with that comment.
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Back at his own house, with two dripping umbrellas by the door and several wet tracks leading into the kitchen, the group of them sat in the kitchen. “Okay, time to name the pup. Suggestions?”
“…Johnny?”
Jin looked over, “…as in Kitagawa Johnny? As in the principal? As in YOU should try harder?”
Kame giggled and shook his head, “I was thinking more along the lines of Johnny Depp…ew…the principle.”
The elder grinned, “No, YOU are not naming him after a real person. That’s terrible, that’s like naming a…a pumpkin.”
His brows furled at the example but decided against another argument, “Fine, how’d YOU name those two?”
He laughed at the other’s impression, “Well Maru, I didn’t name, and Pin, Pi bought him with me so we just named him using our names. Pi and Jin, Pin, get it?”
Kame rolled his eyes, “yea, I get it. Well we can’t really do that with this pup…”
“Why not?”
“Let’s see…Kamenashi Kazuya and Akanishi Jin…Akame? AkaKame? Kin? Jazu…Jinzuya…wow, it’s like a screwed up version of Godzilla.”
He made a face, “I see your point. So what should we name him?”
The younger man crossed his arms and looked up thoughtfully, “I don’t know…this is surprisingly hard…”
The taller boy let out a scoff, “No kidding…when did we find this little guy?”
“October 10th?”
Jin looked up in thought, “How about Ten?”
“What?” he grabbed a pen and wrote down the kanji, “Ten?”
“No, October 10th, right?” He grinned, quite proud of his English, “Ten, as in T-E-N.”
Kame raised a brow and let out sarcastically, “then shouldn’t that be Ten-ten? Or Ten-Squared? But wait! That would equal a hundred! Why don’t we just name him that?”
He completely missed the sarcasm and furled his brows, “Why would anyone name their dog Hundred? Ten it is!”
“What!? I didn’t agree to that!”
Jin shrugged, “Ten’s a better name than Hundred, so his name’s Ten.”
The younger boy’s brows furled as he protested, “But I was being sarcastic! How did you miss that!? I was basically dripping with sarcasm there…”
The elder wrinkled his nose, “Ew, sounds sticky.”
“…sarcasm isn’t a physical thing.”
He frowned as he looked over, “obviously…” he gave a huff, “you think you’re real smart, but you’re not. You’re stupid, but you know what? That’s fine because you’ve met your match in me!”
Kame was stuck between being speechless again and laughing, so he settled for something in the middle. He ended up looking a bit like a goldfish with his jaw agape and his lips twitching upwards.
Sensing the awkwardness floating around in the air, Jin retreated back into his habit and began laughing nervously as he slowly slunk back into the kitchen.
The pup’s name ended up Ten.
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Later, he received a call from Pi, “Hey Jin, want to come over? Ryo-chan’s here not studying-”
“Shut up Pi! I would be studying if you didn’t drag me off for lunch again!”
“Stop lying, Ryo-chan. You and your stupid phase.”
“You’re a stupid phase! Damn it! It's like the words are coming out on their own or something! You know, I’m actually going to become broke because you keep dragging me out to lunch like this!”
“That’s okay, after you treat me next time, we’ll share meals.”
“That’s not the point…why do you constantly drag me off to lunch?”
“Because I love you Ryo-chan!”
“W-what!?”
A lot of laughing, “You’re adorable.”
“Shut up!”
“So are you coming, Jin?”
He blinked, “Yea, sure. Tell Ryo-chan that Nakai-sensei didn’t give us homework because he’s too lazy to mark it.”
“Ryo-chan, you liar, you don’t have homework!”
“Yes I do! Jin does too! From Nagase-sensei! We’re probably going to get killed if we don’t do it!”
“…You’ll live.”
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And that’s how he spent the rest of his weekend at Pi’s with Ryo.
Not doing homework.
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As the days went on, he found himself spending more time with Kame, sometimes he’d wait for the other to finish his practice, other times the other would be waiting for him. They’d walk their dogs and talk about completely random things.
“Baseball’s way better!”
“What are you talking about, soccer’s at least a million times better!”
“Well baseball’s a gazillion times better!”
“Well that’s just because you’re shorter than me!”
“At least my shoes look cooler than yours!”
He paused, “…huh?”
Kame gave a smug grin and continued walking, “I learned from the best.”
Jin laughed, “Damn, fine, you got me…this time. But you can’t beat the pro at his own game!”
The younger man smiled, “next time we go out, I’ll teach you how to play baseball, alright?”
“Next time then, it’s a promise. And then after that, I’ll teach you how to play soccer!”
Kame laughed, “It’s a date then.”
He didn’t know why, but his heart skipped a beat at that.
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Yamapi gave an exasperated groan as he shook his friend by the shoulders, “Jin! Why’s Ryo-chan so dense!? I swear, he’s so dense, he’d sink faster than a rock!”
He blinked, “I have no idea…he’s Ryo-chan, you’ll get sucked in the endless void of confusion if you try to figure him out. I swear, even if you knew quantum physics, you wouldn’t be able to unravel the Nishikido puzzle.”
His friend raised a brow, “Quantum physics?”
Giving a shrug, he grinned, “first thing that came to my mind.”
Pi returned to his ranting and gave a yell of frustration, “I thought I made it obvious by now!”
Jin looked over and blinked, “what? What’d you make obvious?”
His friend stared at him, “That I like Ryo-chan?”
“…oh, well I didn’t get it so clearly it’s not that that obvious.”
His friend laughed, “Jin, you’re probably worse than Ryo-chan when it comes to these kinds of things. Oh well, you’re coming over later, right? I’m going to go home first and help kaa-san out.”
“Yea, I’ll be there after I walk the dogs. I promised Kamenashi I’d go with him.”
Yamapi nodded, his mood lightening slightly again, “Sure, I’ll see you later then. By the way, don’t tell Ryo-chan, I’m going to do this my way or I’m not doing it at all.”
He raised a brow, “I always thought you’d be the more straightforward type, Pi.”
“I thought so too, but he’s special, if you’re that direct with Ryo-chan he’ll probably turn all red and hide from you for the rest of his life.”
The elder gave a laugh, “That’s Ryo-chan alright.”
He nodded, “So I’m going to do this my way.”
Jin pumped his fist into the air, “You go Pi! If anyone can get Ryo-chan, it’d be you! You’ll get him for sure!”
The other turned around with a large grin and imitated his gesture, “Yea!”
After he was left alone, he stood there and a moment later, he began panicking, “Crap! What am I supposed to say to Kamenashi!?”
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A/N: Second chapter! And so, the problems begin. XD Booo spring break's almost over D= Oh well...Enjoy!
Pairings: Akame, Ryopi, smidge of Kamepi
Rating: PG
Summary: Akanishi Jin and Kamenashi Kazuya were average students with average lives until they meet each other. The results? An eccentric school year.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2:
After they (Kame) cleaned the tea up, Jin looked over incredulously, “What do you mean get you a date with Pi!?”
The other boy raised a brow calmly, “What? It’s not like I’m asking for a miracle from you, just get me one by the end of summer vacation, and one’s all I’m asking for, whether it works out or not.”
“But…”
“Come on, it can’t be that hard.”
“I don’t know…”
“He’s your best friend, isn’t he?”
“Yea, but still…”
“You’re Akanishi Jin, aren’t you?”
“Flattery isn’t going to work for this. Nothing you say can make me-”
The younger boy crossed his arms, “Puppy.”
He threw his hands up in defeat, “Fine! I’ll get you a date! Only one though!”
Kame grinned, “Sounds good to me.”
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The next day, it was the weekend, and his uniform still hadn’t dried completely. But luckily, he didn’t need it, so he put on a pair of worn out jeans, a t-shirt, and a jacket, and took the pup and his other two dogs out for a walk with Ryo’s umbrella.
The four of them went to the school courtyard where yelling could be heard. Blinking, Jin made his way to where the voices were coming from.
It was the baseball team.
They were practicing in the rain. He walked over and squatted on a bench with the dogs in his arms while he balanced the umbrella between his shoulder and cheek. The team didn’t take any notice of him until about an hour later, when they began putting away their equipment. Someone began pointing at him, causing Kame to look at them and blink, “Akanishi-senpai?”
Jin waved the best he could.
He felt stupid afterwards.
The younger boy packed up and headed over in his wet uniform, he reached out to pet the wet dogs which became quite hyper and struggled to get out of his hold. “Whoa!” He set them down to avoid falling over and glared at them as they surrounded the other.
Kame laughed and continued ruffling the dogs’ fur, “So what are you doing here?”
Jin shrugged, “I was taking these guys out for a walk.”
“I didn’t think you’d have two other dogs.”
He smiled and looked at the three rather proudly, “well I do, this is Maru, Pin and now I have this little guy.”
The other blinked, “You didn’t name him yet?”
This caused him to raise a brow, “I thought you wanted to take part in naming him.”
“I do.”
He rolled his eyes and gave a mock-sigh, “Then hurry up and get changed so we can head back to my place and name him, I’m tired of calling him ‘pup’.”
“Fine,” Kame snorted but didn’t retort wittily, instead, he grabbed his bag and headed for the change room.
When the younger boy disappeared, he looked down at his dogs, “See him? That’s the kid that’s making me get him a date with Pi just so I can keep you, pup. See how much crap I’m doing just to keep you? You better be grateful.”
The pup looked up at him and wagged its tail.
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Ryo looked over from his bowl of food and blinked, “Hey, isn’t that Jin?”
“Hm?” Pi followed the other’s gaze, “yea it is, and he’s with Kamenashi…I guess that’s why he didn’t pick up his phone earlier. They look like they’re getting along pretty well…”
The shorter boy missed the implications behind the statement and nodded, “Yea…hey!” He glared at the other as another slice of meat was stolen from his bowl, “stop stealing my food!”
“But you’re eating really slowly! I’m just helping you out! It’s not like you can eat that much anyways!”
“I can so! The only reason I never eat that much is because you end up eating half of my dish!”
“Because you can’t finish it!”
Ryo frowned, “I bet I can! I’m going to order another one just to prove you wrong!”
Yamapi raised a brow, “fine, go ahead and try, I bet you won’t be able to finish it.”
“I will…” he opened his wallet, “the second I get the money to order it…Pi?”
“What?” The younger boy laughed, “You don’t have enough money? You sure came prepared.”
He huffed, “that’s just because you keep dragging me out for meals.”
“Because I like spending time with Ryo-chan!”
“Uh huh…so are you going to pay for my meal or what?”
Pi sighed and fished out his wallet, “fine…just because I like you that much. You’re treating me back next time though.”
Ryo shrugged, “sounds like a plan.”
“You’re coming over after this right?” He asked while he asked for the check.
“Huh? But I have homework.”
The other nodded, “right, so you’re coming over.”
“But-”
“No buts!”
“Bu-”
“Are you picking homework over me!?” His brows furled, “Ryo-chan, since when did you start caring about homework anyways?”
He blinked and thought for a moment, “that’s a good question actually…I don’t know…I don’t really care about it actually…hey, what do you know? You’re right…for once. I think I’m going through a phase…”
The younger boy snorted, “A really stupid phase.”
Without thinking, he replied, “You’re a stupid phase!”
“…what?”
“I don’t know, that was like a natural reaction or something. Oh my god, I’m turning into Jin!”
Yamapi sighed and looked over to where his other best friend was a few minutes ago, “Speaking of Jin…why can’t we just get along like Jin and Kamenashi?”
Again, missing the implications, Ryo replied with a shrug.
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“You’re stupid!”
“No! You’re stupid!”
“No, you’re stupider!”
“Well you’re the stupidest!”
“At least I’m not filled head to toe with stupid-osity!”
“That’s not a word!”
“It is now!”
“You can’t just make up words in the middle of an argument!”
“Yes you can! How else do you think they came up with Jell-O!?”
He left Kame speechless with that comment.
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Back at his own house, with two dripping umbrellas by the door and several wet tracks leading into the kitchen, the group of them sat in the kitchen. “Okay, time to name the pup. Suggestions?”
“…Johnny?”
Jin looked over, “…as in Kitagawa Johnny? As in the principal? As in YOU should try harder?”
Kame giggled and shook his head, “I was thinking more along the lines of Johnny Depp…ew…the principle.”
The elder grinned, “No, YOU are not naming him after a real person. That’s terrible, that’s like naming a…a pumpkin.”
His brows furled at the example but decided against another argument, “Fine, how’d YOU name those two?”
He laughed at the other’s impression, “Well Maru, I didn’t name, and Pin, Pi bought him with me so we just named him using our names. Pi and Jin, Pin, get it?”
Kame rolled his eyes, “yea, I get it. Well we can’t really do that with this pup…”
“Why not?”
“Let’s see…Kamenashi Kazuya and Akanishi Jin…Akame? AkaKame? Kin? Jazu…Jinzuya…wow, it’s like a screwed up version of Godzilla.”
He made a face, “I see your point. So what should we name him?”
The younger man crossed his arms and looked up thoughtfully, “I don’t know…this is surprisingly hard…”
The taller boy let out a scoff, “No kidding…when did we find this little guy?”
“October 10th?”
Jin looked up in thought, “How about Ten?”
“What?” he grabbed a pen and wrote down the kanji, “Ten?”
“No, October 10th, right?” He grinned, quite proud of his English, “Ten, as in T-E-N.”
Kame raised a brow and let out sarcastically, “then shouldn’t that be Ten-ten? Or Ten-Squared? But wait! That would equal a hundred! Why don’t we just name him that?”
He completely missed the sarcasm and furled his brows, “Why would anyone name their dog Hundred? Ten it is!”
“What!? I didn’t agree to that!”
Jin shrugged, “Ten’s a better name than Hundred, so his name’s Ten.”
The younger boy’s brows furled as he protested, “But I was being sarcastic! How did you miss that!? I was basically dripping with sarcasm there…”
The elder wrinkled his nose, “Ew, sounds sticky.”
“…sarcasm isn’t a physical thing.”
He frowned as he looked over, “obviously…” he gave a huff, “you think you’re real smart, but you’re not. You’re stupid, but you know what? That’s fine because you’ve met your match in me!”
Kame was stuck between being speechless again and laughing, so he settled for something in the middle. He ended up looking a bit like a goldfish with his jaw agape and his lips twitching upwards.
Sensing the awkwardness floating around in the air, Jin retreated back into his habit and began laughing nervously as he slowly slunk back into the kitchen.
The pup’s name ended up Ten.
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Later, he received a call from Pi, “Hey Jin, want to come over? Ryo-chan’s here not studying-”
“Shut up Pi! I would be studying if you didn’t drag me off for lunch again!”
“Stop lying, Ryo-chan. You and your stupid phase.”
“You’re a stupid phase! Damn it! It's like the words are coming out on their own or something! You know, I’m actually going to become broke because you keep dragging me out to lunch like this!”
“That’s okay, after you treat me next time, we’ll share meals.”
“That’s not the point…why do you constantly drag me off to lunch?”
“Because I love you Ryo-chan!”
“W-what!?”
A lot of laughing, “You’re adorable.”
“Shut up!”
“So are you coming, Jin?”
He blinked, “Yea, sure. Tell Ryo-chan that Nakai-sensei didn’t give us homework because he’s too lazy to mark it.”
“Ryo-chan, you liar, you don’t have homework!”
“Yes I do! Jin does too! From Nagase-sensei! We’re probably going to get killed if we don’t do it!”
“…You’ll live.”
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And that’s how he spent the rest of his weekend at Pi’s with Ryo.
Not doing homework.
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As the days went on, he found himself spending more time with Kame, sometimes he’d wait for the other to finish his practice, other times the other would be waiting for him. They’d walk their dogs and talk about completely random things.
“Baseball’s way better!”
“What are you talking about, soccer’s at least a million times better!”
“Well baseball’s a gazillion times better!”
“Well that’s just because you’re shorter than me!”
“At least my shoes look cooler than yours!”
He paused, “…huh?”
Kame gave a smug grin and continued walking, “I learned from the best.”
Jin laughed, “Damn, fine, you got me…this time. But you can’t beat the pro at his own game!”
The younger man smiled, “next time we go out, I’ll teach you how to play baseball, alright?”
“Next time then, it’s a promise. And then after that, I’ll teach you how to play soccer!”
Kame laughed, “It’s a date then.”
He didn’t know why, but his heart skipped a beat at that.
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Yamapi gave an exasperated groan as he shook his friend by the shoulders, “Jin! Why’s Ryo-chan so dense!? I swear, he’s so dense, he’d sink faster than a rock!”
He blinked, “I have no idea…he’s Ryo-chan, you’ll get sucked in the endless void of confusion if you try to figure him out. I swear, even if you knew quantum physics, you wouldn’t be able to unravel the Nishikido puzzle.”
His friend raised a brow, “Quantum physics?”
Giving a shrug, he grinned, “first thing that came to my mind.”
Pi returned to his ranting and gave a yell of frustration, “I thought I made it obvious by now!”
Jin looked over and blinked, “what? What’d you make obvious?”
His friend stared at him, “That I like Ryo-chan?”
“…oh, well I didn’t get it so clearly it’s not that that obvious.”
His friend laughed, “Jin, you’re probably worse than Ryo-chan when it comes to these kinds of things. Oh well, you’re coming over later, right? I’m going to go home first and help kaa-san out.”
“Yea, I’ll be there after I walk the dogs. I promised Kamenashi I’d go with him.”
Yamapi nodded, his mood lightening slightly again, “Sure, I’ll see you later then. By the way, don’t tell Ryo-chan, I’m going to do this my way or I’m not doing it at all.”
He raised a brow, “I always thought you’d be the more straightforward type, Pi.”
“I thought so too, but he’s special, if you’re that direct with Ryo-chan he’ll probably turn all red and hide from you for the rest of his life.”
The elder gave a laugh, “That’s Ryo-chan alright.”
He nodded, “So I’m going to do this my way.”
Jin pumped his fist into the air, “You go Pi! If anyone can get Ryo-chan, it’d be you! You’ll get him for sure!”
The other turned around with a large grin and imitated his gesture, “Yea!”
After he was left alone, he stood there and a moment later, he began panicking, “Crap! What am I supposed to say to Kamenashi!?”
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A/N: Second chapter! And so, the problems begin. XD Booo spring break's almost over D= Oh well...Enjoy!